Following up a little less than 3 months after the launch of their new flagship professional graphics card, the FirePro W9100, AMD is back once again this week to further flesh out the FirePro Wx100 series. This time around AMD is announcing a lower tier counterpart to the W9100: the W8100.
Like the W9100 earlier this year, the W8100 is designed to be a follow-up to AMD’s existing Tahiti based FirePro products, in this case the FirePro W8000. Based on a pared down version of AMD’s Hawaii GPU – making this the obligatory second-tier part – the W8100 is intended to refresh AMD’s professional lineup by improving performance while also improving AMD’s feature set through the power and capabilities of the company’s Hawaii GPU.
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